Elites - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

point: Something has changed in the last few years. We've always hired young people from elite colleges and universities and started them as Analysts. For many years we found that after six or seven years with us and one or more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review. Yelp's cadre of so-called View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

important from the 1970s through the end of the century, and as a result, we have seen a massive proliferation of MBA programs. Despite the significant leveling of undergraduate education, the proliferation of the MBA has, in some ways, functioned as another test for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

particular, we find that elite institutions in Vietnam encourage the construction of broader policy-making coalitions, have more competitive selection processes, and place more constraints on executive decision making than exists by way... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

find that being tied through elite sociopolitical networks to the regime in power significantly increased the rate at which South Korean companies formed cross-border strategic alliances, but also that being tied through View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/10/the-cure-for-horrible-bosses/ar/1 Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities Authors:Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

evolved over the past several hundred years. Even more than most organizations, traditional universities are products of their history. That history is shared, because most universities have emulated a handful of elite American schools... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

power in a small socio-economic class. Such an environment was less tolerant of the elitism and paternalism found in large, family-dominated companies in Britain. A corporate meritocracy emerged that fostered the development of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

very fundamental is happening to business," Chu told the alums. "We are, I think, at a new frontier. Until now business was defined by the goods and services we provided to two billion people—people in the first world and the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

low-income countries. The high-quality firms that do exist focus on top-level searches, so companies must scramble to identify middle-level managers, engineers, or floor supervisors. Engineering colleges, business schools, and training institutions have proliferated,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

difference, and willingness to sacrifice.” Simons says the command-and-control format and life-or-death pressure of the military impart important lessons fast. “We are often at our best when we are stressed. In business, we call that stress-testing, and in the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and fastest-growing trader with China,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

provides limited insight into how women build legitimacy through their self-narratives. Our findings from an inductive, qualitative study of 40 women who rose to elite levels in corporations or entrepreneurial ventures during the latter... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

to arise periodically in the future than it did in the past? Does it suggest an opportunity for a would-be fifth or sixth entrant to the global elite of accounting firms? Will such an organization, probably already in existence, be able... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

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